Cundill History Prize Shortlist Announced

Oct 26, 2017

The Cundill History Prize has announced a controversial thesis on inequality, a myth-shattering history of Vietnam, and a study of Siberian exile under the Tsars as this year’s finalists. Three historians—a Briton, a Canadian, and a US-based Austrian—are in contention for the $75,000 prize, the richest in non-fiction for a single work in English. Run by Canada’s McGill University, the Cundill History Prize rewards the best history writing in English. The shortlisted books are:

The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsar by Daniel Beer (Allen Lane)
Vietnam: A New History by Christopher Goscha (Basic)
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel (Princeton University Press)